Amos 2:6 Cross References - JuliaSmith

⁶ Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn it back, for their selling the just one for silver and the needy for shoes;

⁷ And it will be that the sons of Israel sinned against Jehovah their God, having brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and they will fear,other gods. ⁸ And they will go in the laws of the nations which Jehovah dispossessed from the face of the sons of Israel, and the kings of Israel which they made. ⁹ And the sons of Israel will cover the words not thus concerning Jehovah their God, and they will build to them heights in all their cities from the tower of those watching even to the fortified city. ¹⁰ And they will set to them statues and images upon every high hill, and under every green tree. ¹¹ And they will burn incense there in all the heights as the nations which Jehovah carried into exile from their face; and they will do evil words to irritate Jehovah: ¹² And they will serve blocks which Jehovah said to them, Ye shall not do this word. ¹³ And Jehovah will testify in Israel and in Judah by the hand of all his prophets, all seeing, saying, Turn back from your evil ways and watch my commands, my laws according to all my instruction which I commanded your fathers, and which I Sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets. ¹⁴ And they heard not, and they will harden their neck as the neck Of their fathers who did not believe in Jehovah their God. ¹⁵ And they will reject his laws and his covenant which he cut out with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified in them; and they will go after vanity, and they will be vain, and after the nations which were round about them which Jehovah commanded them not to do as they. ¹⁶ And they will forsake all the commands of Jehovah their God, and make to them a molten thing, two Calves; and they will make images, and they will worship to all the army of the heavens, and serve Baal. ¹⁷ And they will cause their sons and their daughters to pass through in fire, and divine divinations and enchantments, and they will be sold to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah to Irritate him. ¹⁸ And Jehovah will be greatly angry against Israel, and he will remove them from his face: not to leave only the tribe of Judah alone.

¹² Because they heard not to the voice of Jehovah their God, and they will pass by his covenant, all which Moses commanded, the servant of Jehovah, and they heard not and did not

²² Wo to the strong to drink wine, and men of strength to mix strong drink: ²³ Justifying the unjust on account of a gift, and they will take away the justice of the just from him.

²¹ Leading a man into sin by a word, and laying snares for him doing justice in the gate, and they will turn aside the just one by vanity.

⁵ And Aholah will commit fornication under me; and she will desire after those loving her, after Assur, they being near. ⁶ Putting on cerulean purple, prefects and governors, young men of desire all of them, horsemen riding horses. ⁷ And she will give her whoredoms upon them from the choice of the sons of Assur all of them, and with all whom she desired; being defiled with all their blocks. ⁸ And her fornications from Egypt she forsook not: for they lay with her in her youth, and they handled the breasts of her virginity, and they will pour forth her fornications upon her. ⁹ For this I delivered her into the hand of those loving her, into the hand of the sons of Assur whom she desired after them.

¹ Hear the word of Jehovah, ye sons of Israel: for a contention to Jehovah with the inhabitants of the land, for no truth and no kindness and no knowledge of God in the land. ² Swearing and lying, and breaking in pieces, and stealing and committing adultery, they broke forth; and bloods touched upon bloods.

¹¹ Fornication and wine and new wine will take away the heart. ¹² My people will ask in their counsel, and with their rod they will announce to them: for the spirit of fornications caused to err, and they will commit fornication from under their God. ¹³ Upon the heads of the mountains they will sacrifice, and upon the hills they will burn incense, under the oak and the white poplar and the terebinth, because its shadow was good: for this your daughters will commit fornication, and your brides shall commit adultery. ¹⁴ I will not review over your daughters when they shall commit fornication, and over your brides when they shall commit adultery: fur they will separate themselves with harlots, and with prostitutes will they sacrifice: and the people will not understand, they shall be thrown down.

⁷ They were all hot as a furnace, and they consumed their judges; all their kings fell: none among them calling to me. ⁸ Ephraim will mingle himself among my people; Ephraim was a cake not turned. ⁹ Strangers consumed his strength, and he knew not: also grayness of hair was sprinkled upon him, and he knew not ¹⁰ And the pride of Israel was humbled in his face: and they turned not back to Jehovah their God. and sought him not in all this

⁴ They made kings, and not from me: and they made princes, and I knew not: their silver and their gold they made to them images to cut off. ⁵ Thy calf rejected, O Shomeron; mine anger was kindled against them: how long shall they not be able to be clean? ⁶ For from Israel, and this workman made it, and it is not God: for the calf of Shomeron shall be broken in pieces.

² And now they will add to sin, and they will make to them a molten image of their silver, in their understanding images the work of artificers all of it: they saying to them, The men sacrificing shall kiss the calves. ³ For this they shall be as the cloud of the morning, and as the early dew going way; as the chaff will be driven from the threshing-floor on the wind, and as the smoke from the chimney.

³ And for my people they cast the lot: and they will give the boy for a harlot, and they sold the girl for wine; and they will drink

⁶ And the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem ye sold to the sons of the Grecians, in order to remove them far off from their border.

¹¹ For this, because of your treading upon the poor one, and ye will take away the liftings up of wheat from him: ye built houses of hewn stone, and ye shall not dwell in them; ye planted vineyards of desire and ye shall not drink their wine. ¹² For I knew your many transgressions, and your strong sins: pressing upon the just, taking a ransom, and they turned away the needy in the gate

³ Extending to the evil day, and ye will bring near the seat of violence; ⁴ Lying upon beds of ivory, and stretching out upon their couches, and eating the lambs from the flock, and the calves from the midst of the stall. ⁵ Prating upon the mouth of the lyre, as David they invented to them instruments of music; ⁶ Drinking wine in vases, and they will anoint with the chief of ointments: and they were not grieved for the breaking of Joseph. ⁷ For this now shall they be carried away captive with the head of those carried away captive, and the shouting a those poured forth was removed.

⁴ Hear this, ye, panting after the needy, to cause the humble of the, land to cease. ⁵ Saying, When will the month pass through, and we will sell grain? and the Sabbath, and we will open wheat to diminish the ephah, and to enlarge the shekel, and to make crooked the balance of deceit? ⁶ To buy the poor with silver, and the needy for shoes; and we will sell the refuse of the grain.

² Hating the good and loving the evil; plucking off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones. ³ And who ate the flesh of my people, and they stripp off their skin from off them; and they brake their bones in pieces, and separated as for the pot, and as flesh in the midst of the kettle.

¹⁰ Are there yet treasures of injustice in the house of the unjust, and the ephah of leanness being cursed? ¹¹ Shall I make clean with the balances of injustice, and with the bag of stones of deceit? ¹² For her rich ones were full of violence, and her inhabitants spake falsehood, and their tongue of deceit in their mouth. ¹³ And also I made sick, striking thee, making desolate for thy sins. ¹⁴ Thou shalt eat and not be satisfied; and thine emptiness in the midst of thee; and thou shalt remove and shalt not deliver; and what thou shalt save I will give to the sword. ¹⁵ Thou shalt sow and thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olive and thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil; and new wine, and thou shalt not drink wine. ¹⁶ The laws of Omri will be observed, and all the work of the house of Ahab, and ye will go in their counsels; so that I shall give thee for a desolation, and her inhabitants for hissing, and ye shall bear the reproach of my People.